FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Brooks Koepka is doing a great of defending both his championship and his lead at the 101st PGA Championship, grinding through an even par round on Saturday to hold the 54-hole ...

The past 12 months had a little of everything — a career Grand Slam, Ryder Cup chaos and so much more. With 2026 on the horizon, our writers look back at the most memorable moments from 2025 and ...

Editor's Note: This story first appeared in the June 2002 issue of Golf Digest. Since then, Golf Digest has listed Joseph H. Burbeck as the architect of Bethpage Black and A.W. Tillinghast as a ...

The best golf events linger in our minds for all the right reasons. Tom Watson at Turnberry in the hot summer of ’77, Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” on car radios all over the world. Big Jack, Augusta, ...

Friends Academy wins the Long Island boys team golf championship against Sayville at Bethpage Black on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.

When the Ryder Cup comes to town, the spotlight of international golf isn’t the only thing that intensifies. At Bethpage Black, the crush of demand for tee times exposed a more modern challenge: bots ...

From a former golf course maintenance student and longtime observer to PGA Professional and Coach, my inside look at what makes Bethpage Black special — and why Andrew Wilson’s 36-year journey ...

Every weekend, hundreds of golfers load up the boot and head to Bethpage. Clubs and shoes are not the only essential items stuck in the trunk of the car. Sleeping bags and food supplies are also ...

FARMNINGDALE, NY -- Remember when PGA Championships were easy? Don't let Brooks Koepka's 63 in Round 1 fool you: Thursday's average score ballooned to 73.1 as Bethpage Black bared her teeth even ...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – The seven days of vitriol and boorish behavior the European Ryder Cup team endured at Bethpage is unacceptable. Full stop. This isn’t the handwringing of a golf purist clinging to ...

Having just completed a Tuesday-morning spin through Bethpage Black’s back nine, Bryson DeChambeau wasn’t done. He strutted from the 18th green to the adjacent first tee box, plopped down his launch ...

Back in 1993, I found myself stuck in a Golf Course Operation program at a college tucked away in upstate New York. Maintenance wasn't my calling — I knew that much — but I figured I'd see it through ...